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A car is new at the beginning of a calendar year. The time, in years, before the car experiences its first failure is exponentially distributed with mean 2. Calculate the probability that the car experiences its first failure in the last quarter of some calendar year.

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Answer: 0.205

Step-by-step explanation:

Let be rv in years before the car experiences its first failure. We know

Please see the workings attached .

A car is new at the beginning of a calendar year. The time, in years, before the car-example-1
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